Apple Oatmeal Mini Muffins

Sundays are generally prep days. I take stock of what’s in my fridge, look at my schedule for the week ahead, and plan what I want to eat for the week. My goal is to cook at least one dish that I can pack for lunch on work days, or quickly eat for dinner after a workday workout.

These apple oatmeal mini muffins came out of my Sunday evening prep work. I marinated chicken, cooked bomya or tomato okra stew, and started making these muffins. As I looked through my fridge to see what food items I had overlooked during the week, I noticed that I had four apples that were far beyond the point of eating. I started peeling them, mentally running through a few possibilities: I could make apple crisp with a brown sugar oatmeal topping, or I could make my favorite oatmeal apple chocolate chip cookies, or, I could try something new.

I considered making apples muffins, but I was hesitant. In the past, any variation of apple cake or muffin that I’d eaten was heavy and dense. After browsing through several apple cake and muffin recipes, I settled on the type of muffin I was going to bake: apple oatmeal mini muffins. While I knew that oatmeal would make the muffins a bit heavier, I also knew it would give the muffins a nice texture. Buttermilk and the tiny bits of apple keep the muffins moist. These muffins were a hit at work; people liked that they weren’t too sweet and that, despite having oatmeal, they were still quite fluffy.

Enjoy!

Oat flour, whole oats, cinnamon, salt, baking soda

Eggs and vanilla in a bowl

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Apple Oatmeal Mini Muffins

Prep Time35minutes

Cook Time15minutes

Total Time50minutes

Ingredients

2cupsoat flour / crushed oats

1/2cupold fashioned oats

2cupsdiced and peeled apples3-4 smaller apples, 2 larger apples

2eggs

1cupbuttermilk

1/2cupbutter(1 stick)

1/2tbspcinnamon

1tspbaking soda

1/8tspsalt

3/4cupbrown sugar

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 F.

Peel and dice the apples.

Using a blender, crush 2 cups of old fashioned oats (to get 2 cups of oat flour, you'll need to crush more than 2 cups) or use purchased oat flour.

In a medium bowl, mix the oat flour, old fashioned oats, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.